Women in European academia before 1800—religion, marriage, and human capital

Human Capital, Marriage and Regression

This paper proposes a simple search and bargaining model of marriage. In the young age, each person starts with an endowment of financial resources and an inherited cultural orientation. They acquire a marketable human capital and optimally modify their orientation using this endowment. In the second period of their lives, a search for the right spouse and then bargaining for the household orie...

Human capital and interethnic marriage decisions.

Common explanations for the generally negative relationship between education and ethnic endogamy include (1) education makes immigrants and their children better able to adapt to native culture thereby eliminating the need for a same-ethnicity spouse and (2) education raises the likelihood of leaving ethnic enclaves, thereby decreasing the probability of meeting potential same-ethnicity spouse...

Seroprevalence of Antibodies against Varicella Zoster Virus among Women before Marriage in Yazd, Iran

Background and Aims: Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection among pregnant women can cause a serious threat to the health of mother and fetus. Varicella is clearly less dangerous for immunized mothers. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of VZV antibody among women before marriage.  Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 300 women of child-bea...

Human Capital Development Before Age Five

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...